================================================================================ vimabb - Turn stdin into vim abbreviation code. DESCRIPTION Makes it easier to put code snipplets in vim abbs. USAGE vimabb [OPTIONS].. STDIN -h help -a string abbreviation name -v version USAGE EXAMPLES * vimabb ./codesnipplets/stdin- >> ~/.vimrc cat code.pl | vimabb -a 'nameofabb' Now the abbreviation 'stdin-' exists. * SUGGESTED USE For some coding languages, I may simply have a lot of code chunks that I reuse. Let's take css as an example. 1) I create a directory mkdir /tmp/css 2) In it I place various simple text files. Each one is named as the abbreviation. For example, if I have a chunk of css that should be expanded from the abbreviation 'links', I create /tmp/css/links-, in that file, I place the code I want to expand to. I have another one called /tmp/css/tables-. At this point I have a directory with: /tmp/css/tables- /tmp/css/links- 3) Now I want to turn these into abbreviations, save them to a file, which is only loaded if I am editing css! How? vimabb /tmp/css/??* >> /tmp/abbreviations.css.vim Now you have things like iab links ... iab tables ... In that file ( /tmp/abbreviations.css.vim ) Take a look inside: cat /tmp/abbreviations.css.vim 4) Making use of the output.. Make sure you have a ~/.vim directory. Put the file there.. mkdir ~/.vim mv /tmp/abbreviations.css.vim ~/.vim/abbreviations.css.vim 5) Now add this to your ~/.vimrc autocmd bufread,bufnewfile *.css so ~/.vim/abbreviations.css.vim Great. Now, whenever you are editing css files, these abbreviations will be accessible to you. You can try it out.. edit a /tmp/test.css file, and in command mode issue :ab to see the abbreviations presently active. You should see your 'tables-' and 'links-' abbreviations! You can also save abbreviations to a file such as in the example above, and only load them when you want them! Instead of using the autocmd line in your ~/.vimrc.. as shown in step 5) You would edit a file, and then issue the source command in vim exec mode.. :so ~/.vim/abbreviations.css.vim Example input and output.. # cat t/abb1 I am content over many lines of and with indentation even and then the indents... they end. # vimabb t/abb1 iab abb1 \:set noautoindent \I am content \over many \lines of \ and with indentation even \ \and then the indents... they end. BUGS Yes, contact AUTHOR. CAVEATS This is in development- I make use of this program, if you have any suggestions and or contributions, the AUTHOR has been dumped- and has a lot of time in his hands. AUTHOR Leo Charre leocharre at cpan dot org LICENSE This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, i.e., under the terms of the "Artistic License" or the "GNU General Public License". DISCLAIMER This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the "GNU General Public License" for more details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REQUIRES Carp: 1 Getopt::Std::Strict: 1.01 INSTALL perl Makefile.PL make install